Wisconsin · Private foundation
Louis Ancel Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $7k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Louis Ancel Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $6k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $5k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $8k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $5k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $5k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $3k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $5k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $7k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Agudas Achim | $5,400 | 3 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $5,065 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,925 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $2,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Shalom | $2,125 | 3 | n/a |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $1,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $1,145 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $1,008 | 6 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $650 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Congregation Agudas Achim | $5,400 | 3 | n/a |
| Milwaukee Art Museum Inc | $5,065 | 6 | 0% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $2,925 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for Excellence in Education | $2,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Temple Beth Shalom | $2,125 | 3 | n/a |
| The Art Institute of Chicago | $1,150 | 3 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Inc | $1,145 | 6 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Public Museum Inc | $1,008 | 6 | 0% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $800 | 4 | 0% |
| The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum | $650 | 7 | 0% |
| Create Wisconsin Inc | $600 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Services Inc | $475 | 3 | 0% |
| Abcd Inc | $400 | 5 | 0% |
| Discovery World Ltd | $340 | 3 | 0% |
| The Uwm Foundation Inc | $325 | 3 | 0% |
| Milwaukee Jewish Day School Inc | $225 | 3 | 0% |
| Hillel Milwaukee | $122 | 2 | 0% |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Bay Area Association of Disabled Sailors | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Historic Haymarket Milwaukee Inc | $50 | 1 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $25 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $25 | 1 | 0% |
| Student Organ Donation Advocates | $25 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis Ancel Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc · Daniel M Soref Rvoc Tr · Anon Charitable Trust · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Pelz Family Foundation Inc · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Howard Frankenthal Family Foundation Ltd · Peck Foundation Milwaukee Ltd · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation
How this is measured
About Louis Ancel Charitable Trust
- How much does Louis Ancel Charitable Trust give?
- Louis Ancel Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $6,952 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Louis Ancel Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Arts & Culture (27%), Religion (21%).
- Who are Louis Ancel Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Congregation Agudas Achim ($5k), Milwaukee Art Museum Inc ($5k), Southern Poverty Law Center Inc ($3k).
- Does Louis Ancel Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louis Ancel Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Louis Ancel Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Harri Hoffmann Family Foundation Inc, Daniel M Soref Rvoc Tr, Anon Charitable Trust.
- Where is Louis Ancel Charitable Trust based?
- Louis Ancel Charitable Trust is based in WI.
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